Deseret Evening News | 1905-12-16 | Page 15 | How Uncle Sam Wishes All the World a Happy New Year

How Hov ow Uncle Sam Wishes All the World A Happy New Year T midnight Dec uc 31 U from Crom th the white AT A towering time factory on George Georgetown Georgetown town heights Admiral Chester superintendent of the national will have hay sounded sound around the earth oarth by the cables cable which now span our great spinning top lop anti and to the th continental and Insular nations to tho the north and south math by vast valt net nt networks networks works of or wire Ire ramifying In all direr directions I tram from this great at girdle a signal It announcing the birth of ot the year e ear r 1 1908 0 at al the capital ea of ot our republic At one on push of or the official button the electric greeting will permeate our con continent continent and leap 11 across Mm the Pacific from Crom San Hart Francisco l to Honolulu to Midway to Guam to Manila ManUa and JUt nd to tI II 0 I up rind and down doers tilt th entire east eastern ern ni excel t f Asis Ao Ail from to the Malay peninsula It will cross SumAtra and the homo home of ot the tIo wild wildman man of ot Borneo will speed slIced over oer the coffee cortee plantations of ot Java to Austra Australia lia and New ew Zealand over the anon drifts of ot SI 81 SIberIa Lena berIa and Hussla it II will be felt fait In Mos Moscow Moscow Io cow and St Nt Petersburg and there bo ho betaken taken up by the thick mesh me h of or wires covering northern and central l going ling to London and at th the time spanning the coast coat of at the tha Mack black conti continent nent of ot Africa 1 rom Alexandria It will be shot hot miles mUtt up 1111 the Nile Into the very heart of or Africa leaping out Into the Ma ses It will register re itself lUelf In tho the Isles Ile of ot Madagascar emir Iud and Mauritius From Irom Lisbon Ubon to the Mad I run rind and over the Cape Cane Verde Islands It will Jump to Brazil Brasil thence down Into the U ls of at central and up ull lute Into across the tha th Windward WInd Isles the Lesser Antilles and the West In Indies Indies dies and then home again to the tho capi capital till tel of ot the tho nation It U Is I almost Inconceivable that sue such luch sucha h hA A 11 circuit of oC the earth can eRn be made In scarcely moor mom or time thin then YOU vou would ex exI I 1 nd lId In wishing a neighbor Ua a happy happ new year Washington Star